Laser Cutting vs Shape and Bake
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Laser Cutting
Experience the thrill of precision cutting with a virtual laser. Design and customize unique shapes across various materials to showcase your creative talents.
- Virtual laser cutting
- Design custom shapes
- Customize creations
- Work with different materials
- Showcase skills
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Cut it good! Cut it smooth! Cut out some awesome shapes with a laser! Show your skills and custom your creations with different materials!
Shape and Bake
Unleash your creativity by shaping dough with string to form various artistic designs. This game offers a relaxing and satisfying experience with hundreds of colorful arts to discover.
- Shape dough with string
- Creative design puzzles
- Hundreds of arts to create
- Relaxing and satisfying gameplay
- Colorful visual arts
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Bake Away! It’s amazing what you can do with a chunk of dough and a piece of string! In this game, you will need to use your creative mind and create the level’s shape using your string and dough! Simply cross the string from side to side to squeeze the desired shape! Hundreds of beautiful and colorful arts to create. Enjoy a relaxing and satisfying mechanism!
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Verdict
Laser Cutting and Shape and Bake both sit at 4.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Shape and Bake's written reviews are positive against 57% of Laser Cutting's. Laser Cutting's advantage is ratings volume (17K vs 71) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 weeks). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Laser Cutting sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Shape and Bake sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Laser Cutting against 4.8 for Shape and Bake. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Laser Cutting has 17K ratings behind it against 71, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 57% of Laser Cutting's written reviews are positive against 100% of Shape and Bake's.
Laser Cutting ships an update fortnightly, Shape and Bake every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and June 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Laser Cutting | Shape and Bake |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (17K ratings) | 4.8 (71 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 17K — better | 71 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.4 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 185 MB | 329 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dual Cat | APP CENTRAL LTD |
Customer experience
Laser Cutting
Shape and Bake
Bugs and requests
Laser Cutting
Reported bugs
2 issues- Frequent crashes and freezes
- Inconsistent performance across devices
Requested features
3 requests- More challenging levels
- Ability to customize the cutting experience
- Wider variety of objects to cut
Shape and Bake
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Laser Cutting
- Remove Ads$2.99
Shape and Bake
- All Bundle Features Unlocked!$19.991 Month
- All AppCentral Games Unlocked!$29.991 Month
Questions
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